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I can't tell if the article is serious, knowingly over the top, or even an act of an epic trolling. In any case, it's an excellent demonstration of how techno-

by shoyer 10y ago

I can't tell if the article is serious, knowingly over the top, or even an act of an epic trolling. In any case, it's an excellent demonstration of how techno-libertarian crypto-currency advocates inhabit an entirely alternative reality.

wyager 10y ago
> techno-libertarian crypto-currency advocates inhabit an entirely alternative reality. I really don't understand how people keep parroting stuff like this. By any metric, Bitcoin has been a resounding success and has completely discredited any of its original detractors. Despite this, people still go around saying "Haha, Bitcoin, what a silly idea. It will never work.". It already has worked! If anything, people like you (no personal insult intended, I'm simply addressing your comment) seem to inhabit some alternate reality where Bitcoin isn't tremendously valuable and there isn't a booming economy (with white, black, and grey markets) build around Bitcoin.
- mavhc 10y ago
  Currently approx 2.3 transactions per second
  - wyager 10y ago
    Last I heard it was around 7, but this is an uninteresting self-imposed bandwidth limitation. It's not a fundamental issue with the system.
20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I read the article. It is pretty clear in its purpose and reasoning and its points are cogent. Your response is one of characterization, purely. You raise no objections, you provide no argument or reason to believe "they" inhabit an "alternative reality". You do call them names, though "techno-libertarian" is a weird one because how is that different from any other libertarian? I know of no group of people who call themselves "techno-libertarians" so this would seem to imply you are using it as a pejorative or as a code phrase to signal others of a similar ideology to you. At any rate, your response, like so much commentary these days, contains no addressing of the argument, no specific claims or points, but merely derision and attitude.

by shoyer 10y ago

wyager 10y ago

> techno-libertarian crypto-currency advocates inhabit an entirely alternative reality. I really don't understand how people keep parroting stuff like this. By any metric, Bitcoin has been a resounding success and has completely discredited any of its original detractors. Despite this, people still go around saying "Haha, Bitcoin, what a silly idea. It will never work.". It already has worked! If anything, people like you (no personal insult intended, I'm simply addressing your comment) seem to inhabit some alternate reality where Bitcoin isn't tremendously valuable and there isn't a booming economy (with white, black, and grey markets) build around Bitcoin.

mavhc 10y ago
Currently approx 2.3 transactions per second
- wyager 10y ago
  Last I heard it was around 7, but this is an uninteresting self-imposed bandwidth limitation. It's not a fundamental issue with the system.

20yrs_no_equity 10y ago

I read the article. It is pretty clear in its purpose and reasoning and its points are cogent. Your response is one of characterization, purely. You raise no objections, you provide no argument or reason to believe "they" inhabit an "alternative reality". You do call them names, though "techno-libertarian" is a weird one because how is that different from any other libertarian? I know of no group of people who call themselves "techno-libertarians" so this would seem to imply you are using it as a pejorative or as a code phrase to signal others of a similar ideology to you. At any rate, your response, like so much commentary these days, contains no addressing of the argument, no specific claims or points, but merely derision and attitude.